Karachi traffic police announce traffic plan for IDEAS-2022 at Expo.
Both tracks of the Sir Shah Suleman Road will be blocked from 7 am to 6 pm on each of the four days of the defence exhibition, according to a press release from the Karachi Traffic Police. The Karsaz HIR Road beneath the Stadium Flyover and off to the Expo Center will only be open to cars bearing stickers as traffic schedule.
No large or commercial vehicles were allowed to travel from Karsaz, HIR Road to the stadium, it said. The Expo Center, National Coaching Center, and National Stadium will all offer parking for attendees of the event. Only cars with stickers on them will be permitted to park there.
Parking won’t be permitted on Sir Shah Suleman Road, Stadium Road, University Road, or any other surrounding streets, according to the press release.
While this is being on, residents in the vicinity of the Expo Center have been urged to find alternate routes since Sir Shah Suleman Road to the Stadium will be off-limits to vehicles.
The Drigh Road flyover will also be used by cars traveling from the airport to Rashid Minhas Road, Millennium, and NIPA. According to the news release, traffic traveling from University Road can do a U-turn and head to Hassan Square or Jail Road before continuing on to Shaheed-e-Millat or the PPP Chowrangi.
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Heavy Traffic Schedule
Heavy traffic coming from Share Faisal in the direction of Sir Shah Suleman Road will be detoured to Millennium, Karsaz, and Drigh Road on the left in the direction of Rashid Minhas Road.
Vehicles traveling from NIPA into the city will be detoured from Jafri Optics via KDA Scheme 1 and the National Stadium’s back lanes to Stadium Road through the Steel Yard cut and Bahria College, from which point they can perform a U-turn towards the Aga Khan Hospital or Habib Ibrahim Rehmatullah Road.
Traffic will be detoured from Liaquatabad number 10 to Karimabad and then right to Dakh Khana, Teen Hatti. Separately, all traffic leaving New Town and heading toward Liaquatabad will be rerouted to the left from the Askari Park cut, continuing on to Altaf Hussain Barelvi Road.
University Road will continue to be accessible for regular traffic in the meantime. Only vehicles with the corresponding red, green, or blue stickers will be permitted to go from the National Stadium bridge to the Expo Center for their allotted parking places.
